[ale] remote shutdown

[Zhongbin Yu " <z.yu at premcall.com>]

I had to say:
this is a very "sophisticated" way to repeat NT's ping of
death :-(

Jerry Yu
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On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Robert Drake wrote:

#
#setup a process in inetd with an unused port number.  then restrict it in
#hosts.allow/hosts.deny to only local networks
#
#2001  stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/sbin/tcpd /sbin/halt
#
#I personally did this with pppd/killall pppd.  so users could start a 
#ppp session with "telnet stupid 2001" (stupid is the name of my masq box)
#
#Robert
#
#On Mon, 18 Oct 1999 jj at spiderentertainment.com wrote:
#
#> Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 11:58:10 -0400
#> From: jj at spiderentertainment.com
#> To: "ale at ale.org" <ale at ale.org>
#> Subject: [ale] remote shutdown
#> 
#> I have a small machine at home RH6 that is doing ip_masq. And my sister
#> in law wants to use the internet from her computer. She knows how to
#> turn on the linux box but she does not know how to shut it down. I
#> personally run the halt command which shutsdown and turns off the
#> machine. I need a solution that will do just that, where she clicks on
#> her desktop(Win98) and it rsh the halt command, any ideas ?
#> 
#> 
#> BTW: I have a small hard disk in this machine that is getting corrupted,
#> I'm looking for a kernel that will do IP_MASQ and can be booted from
#> floppy, I looked at the devel project, but it does not say anything
#> about ip_masq. Can I build such kernel ... ? I'll try tonight but any
#> pointers would be greatly appreciated.
#> 
#> Thx,
#> 
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